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“Above me is the same silvery moon that shines down on you. Looking at it makes me recall the glint of your blade pressed against my throat and other romantic moments.” (The Queen of Nothing Quotes)
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“And if the serpent grows in monstrousness and corruption, if it poisons the land of Elfhame itself, then let me be the queen of monsters. Let me rule over that blackened land with my redcap father as a puppet by my side. Let me be feared and never again afraid.”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“And yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea. It was yours before I could ever admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“But vows should never be to a crown. They should be to a ruler. And they should be of your own free will. I am your king, and beside me stands my queen. But it is your choice whether or not to follow us. Your will shall be your own.”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“By you, I am forever undone.”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“For what we want most, we will take almost any chance.”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“He looks every inch a spy from the Court of Shadows, down to the sneaky smile pulling at the corner of his beautiful mouth.”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness.”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“I haul around and slap him. It’s a stinging blow, smearing the gold on his cheekbone and causing his skin to redden. We stare at each other for long moments, breathing hard. His eyes are bright with something entirely different from anger. I am in over my head. I am drowning.”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“I would settle for even his worst self, his cruelest trickster self, if only he could be here. -Jude Duarte” (The Queen of Nothing Quotes)
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“In the mortal world, when I thought you were my enemy, I still missed you.”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“I’ve missed the rush of power that comes with playing a game like this, of strategy and cunning. I hate to admit it, but I’ve missed risking my neck. There’s no room for regrets when you’re busy trying to win. Or at least not to die.”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“Love is stupid. All we do is break one another’s hearts.”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“Magic is seldom so convenient as to conform to our preferences.”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“Maybe it isn’t the worst thing to want to be loved, even if you’re not. Even if it hurts. Maybe being human isn’t always being weak.”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips.” His eyes are black with desire. “By you, I am forever undone.”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“Neither loyalty nor love should be compelled”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“The whole place looks straight out of a fairy tale, the kind where love is a simple thing. never the cause of pain.”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“We have lived in our armor for so long, you and I. And now I am not sure if either of us knows how to removes it.”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
“You love him, too, I think. You’ve loved him since before you were a prisoner of the Undersea. You loved him when you agreed to marry him. Once this is over, I will find the bravery to tell him.”
Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
